Nicotine-absorbent cigarette holder



. 1,556,236 A. M. MILLER NIcoT/INE ABSORBEM CIGARETTE HOLDER Filed March26, 1924 Oct. 6, 1925- a l 1r-5755.5.

INVENTOR ZBEHTM MLLER.

i l TORNEY 'Ptanaaoce 6,1925.

UNI-'ran STATES PATENT oFFlcE...

QLBIERZI.' I. KILLER, 0I SAN FRANCISCO, GALII'OBNIA, ASSIGNOB 01' T0Lnwxs o. emma, or

SAN MGISOO, CALIIORNIA.

mcoiiv'mn-Ansoanm crema nomma. applicati@ alga :lm-cn as, 1m. serial n.701,904.

' To all 'whom z't 'may eoncem:

Be it known that I', Amm M. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, vanda resident ofthe city and county ofl San Francisco, and 5. State of'California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inNicotine- Absorbent Cigarette Holders, 'of whichthe following is aspecification. The present invention relates toimprove- 10 ments 1nmeans for the elimination o nicotine from tobacco-smoke while on itspassage fromthe, burning tobacco to the mouth of the smoker. A principalobject of the present. inven- 15 tion is'to provide means -forv theabsorption of nicotine from tobacco smoke while' on its passage fromlthe burning tobacco to the mouth of the smoker, through a lengthenedcourse of travel for the smoke overm and 10 throug and beneath a largelyincreased cooling surface, thus affording a cooled smokeroduct freedfrom nicotine and devoid of leterious matters.

An additional object sought is to provide for an economic use oftobacco, as it permits the consumption of the entire ent, whetherofcigarette 'or other tobacco orm. 30 Though arrangedmore particularly 'tha view to its use as a cigarette holder, `itlis quite obvious that thesection adapted to hold the cigarette ma be also utilized asamagazinerdirect for t estorage of a smokecharge.

a art of this spec cation,

igure '.1 is a fragmentary elevational view of a cigarette-holder'embodying the 40 principles of my invention;

h al1V absorbent substance aiidalong tobacco con- I In vthe aceompan gvdrawings, 'i forming smoker is short, ca

Referring more particularly to .the drawings, 1 represents t econe-shaped sheath, or casing of the holder, in which is removablsecured the absorbent complementa -shape' core 2 provided with acone-shape? rette end4 a sgiral end to end of t e absorbent core 2, 5ducts or channels leading from either extremity of the absorbent core 2and communicating at different oints with'the spiral groove 4, 6 themout -piece ofthe cigarette-holder, 7 a cigarette, and 8 the extensionof the extrem' ity 3 adapted to receive and spread a ciga-'y grooveextending from. Y

sheath 1 beyond the labsorbent core 2 and fashionedy end, or it may beso formed as to b e as a magazine for'a tobacco charge.In'recapitulation, it is desiredto particu.- larly stress the importantinfluences-to which the smoke is subjected in its passage through mydevice, as com ared' with that of the ordmary cigaretteolder. free andlength travel along a spira oo've carried by an a 'sorbent element andund-l ed exteriorly by a surface exposed to the air, there must result acontact with extend-l edand enlarged surface areas that notonly robs itof its nicotine by absorptiombut, at the Sametime, -full exposes 1tto'an. aircooled surface in outside --atmos here, wherethroughandwhereby, it is rther deprived of Iitsheat and finally delivered tothe smoker as both apurifed and cooled product. With the ordinarycigarette-holder,

utilized and a volatilized nicotme,` with but little chance for anyreaching the smoker who inh urning tobacco.

leased by theb desire to'seeurej byLetters I claim, and Patent:

mg comprising a cone-shaped bodyrtion' a mouth-piece and an extensionvfashiboned td to receive and retain a cigarette Obviousl in .a

the passageofthe smoke from the burning tobacco to the g withv it'bothheat deposition of nicotine Ibefore"v ales practically' the entirevolume oi volatilizedmcotine rerect contact'with the s receive andretain a cigarette, a complemenf tary-shaped;` absorbent corel havingthereabout a spiral groove and formed to the interior of saidbody-portion of said casing,

the walls of said spiral tion with a spi -l section ofl said 5 forming acontinuous spiral :e:

end to end of said absorbent core,

groove 1n combinaa p urality f of ducts leading from either extremityof` sid absorbent core into said spiral groove at varyin distances, anda conically-lformed centrall 7 ocated projection carried by the 10 forwaend' of said labsorbent core and adapted to receive and expand the end'of a. cigarette when inserted. f p N ALBERT M MILLER

